This chapter deals with the end of the war in the Gulf, the ceasefire and the summation of the war. It describes the Iraqi retreat from Kuwait, the Iraqi preparations for the campaign in southern ...
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This chapter deals with the end of the war in the Gulf, the ceasefire and the summation of the war. It describes the Iraqi retreat from Kuwait, the Iraqi preparations for the campaign in southern Iraq against a possible Coalition forces penetration into it and the ceasefire between the two fighting sides and the Safwan talks. It analyzes the conduct of the war by Saddam Hussein, and his involvement in it, the results of the war and the causes of the Iraqi defeat, their mistakes and failures and the important consequences of this defeat and its influence on the Iraqi Armed Forces in the coming years. This war was an important milestone in the history of the Iraqi Army.Less

“The Mother of All Battles” (“Desert Storm”) : The Ceasefire and Summations of the War

Pesach MalovanyIDF (Ret.)Amatzia BaramKevin M. WoodsRonna Englesberg

Published in print: 2017-06-13

This chapter deals with the end of the war in the Gulf, the ceasefire and the summation of the war. It describes the Iraqi retreat from Kuwait, the Iraqi preparations for the campaign in southern Iraq against a possible Coalition forces penetration into it and the ceasefire between the two fighting sides and the Safwan talks. It analyzes the conduct of the war by Saddam Hussein, and his involvement in it, the results of the war and the causes of the Iraqi defeat, their mistakes and failures and the important consequences of this defeat and its influence on the Iraqi Armed Forces in the coming years. This war was an important milestone in the history of the Iraqi Army.